A toast to Kultur – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of A toast to Kultur. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A toast to Kultur
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Skeletons raising their glasses under the title "A toast to Kultur" set this 1916 color lithograph apart from the many wartime posters that showed soldiers or battlefields. German writers used the word *Kultur* in 1914 to describe their country's cultural and moral mission, and critics abroad turned it into an accusation, suggesting that a culture devoted to war had made death its true beneficiary. Skeletons and personified Death were common in the war's imagery, where they stood for the mounting toll of the fighting. The record notes a former owner, the Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik, a German collection of contemporary history.
| Created / published | 1916 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 27 x 53 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918. Death--1910-1920. Skeletons--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 5,775 × 4,676 px · prints to 19 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 684_A_toast_to_Kultur_1916 |
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